The Golden Blade Index

Copied from The Online Waldorf Library 1949 – 2009

All links connect directly to the corresponding Issue on the Waldorf Library website.


The Golden Blade was published from 1949 to 2009. It was founded in 1949 by Charles Davy and Arnold Freeman, who were its first editors, and owes much to the twenty-three years of editorial guidance of Adam Bittleston.


From the first (1949) Issue:

Anthroposophy, a way of thought rather than a body of dogma, springs from the work and teaching of Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925). He spoke of it as "a path of knowledge, to guide the spiritual in the human being to the spiritual in the universe."

The purpose of this Annual is to publish writings which bring the outlook of Anthroposophy to bear on questions and activities^ of the present time.

The title derives from a reference by Rudolf Steiner to an old Persian legend. "Djemjdid was a king who led his people from the north towards Iran, and who received from the god whom he called Ahura Mazdao, a golden dagger, by means of which he was to fulfil his mission on earth. ... It represents a force given to man whereby he can act upon and transform [his] external nature."


And from the 1996 Issue:

Anthroposophy springs from the work and teaching of Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925). He describes it as a 'path of knowledge, to guide the spiritual in the human being to the spiritual in the universe.'

The aim of this yearly journal is to bring the outlook of anthroposophy to bear on questions and activities of evident relevance to the present, in a way which may have a lasting value. It was founded in 1949 by Charles Davy and Arnold Freeman, who were its first editors.

The title derives from an old Persian legend, according to which King Djemjdid received from his god, Aiiura Mazdao, a golden blade with which to fulfil his mission on earth. It carried the heavenly forces of light into the darkness of earthly substance, thus allowing its transformation. The legend points to the possibility that humanity, through wise and compassionate work with the earth, can one day regain on a new level what was lost when the Age of Gold was supplanted by those of Silver, Bronze and Iron. Technology could serve this aim; instead of endangering our planet's life, it could help to make the earth a new sun.


Issue 1949
  • The Threshold of Nature and Man by Rudolf Steiner
  • Tendencies to a Threefold Social Order in English History by A.C. Harwood
  • * Are There too Many People in the World? by E. Pfeiffer
  • Two Poems by H.E. Brading
  • The Goethe Bicentenary:
    Goethe and the Twentieth Century by Owen Barfield
    Goethe and Biology: An Unpaid Debt by H. Poppelbaum
    Goethe's "Light and Darkness" and the Science of the Future by George Adams
  • A Poet and a Painter by Albert Steffen
  • Darwinism and Dreams by Arnold Freeman
  • Lazarus by Adam Bittleston
  • What is a Healthy Society? by Charles Waterman

Issue 1950
  • Spiritual Knowledge: A Way of Life by Rudolf Steiner
  • Mountain and City: A Study of the Images in "The Merchant of Venice" by A.C. Harwood
  • The Experience of Birth and Death in Childhood by Karl König, M.D.
  • Plant Growth and the Forms of Space by George Adams
  • What is a Farm? by C.A, Mier
  • Poems by Owen Barfield and H.E. Brading
  • The Spiritual Geography of Palestine by Emil Bock
  • The Third Way in Architecture by Kenneth Bayes
  • On the Threshold: A Study in Mental Illness by T. Gladstone
  • Meditation and Time by Adam Bittleston
  • Between Sea and Land by E.L. Grant Watson

Issue 1951
  • The Cosmic Word and Individual Man by Rudolf Steiner
  • The Heavenly Hierarchies by Adam Bittleston
  • Etheric Forces by Lawrence Edwards and Charles Waterman
  • Evolution and Creation by E.L. Grant Watson
  • On Being an American by Virginia Moore
  • Soloviev: A Seeker of Sophia by Violet Plincke
  • Form in Art and Society by Owen Barfield
  • A Fair Reward for Work by Brian Stockwell
  • The Chess-Gazing Boy by Charles Waterman
  • Poems by H.E. Brading, Isabel Wyatt and Andrew Keith

Issue 1952
  • The Coming Experience of Christ by Rudolf Steiner
  • Heaven and Ascension by Emil Bock
  • * The Youth of Rudolf Steiner by Adam Bittleston
  • Meditations on Endocrine Glands by Karl König
  • Calleva Atrebatum by H.E. Brading
  • * Rudolf Steiner and the Theatre by Arnold Freeman
  • T.S. Eliot and the Threshold by Ruth Hofrichter
  • An Outside View of Anthroposophy by E.L. Grant Wilson
  • The Evolution of Music by John Davey

Issue 1953
  • From Philosophy to Anthroposophy by Rudolf Steiner
  • The Threefold Structure of the World by George Adams
  • Fantasia on Three Voices by A.C. Harwood
  • Second Sight by Sylvia Eckersley
  • Russet-Coated Captain by H.E. Brading
  • Michael and St. George by Isabel Wyatt
  • "Going Through the Mill" by Maurice Wood
  • Bulwer-Lytton: A Study by Otto Palmer
  • Shropshire Myth and Legend by George Trevelyan
  • The Feast of Torr by John Bolsover

Issue 1954
  • Spiritual Emptiness and Social Life by Rudolf Steiner
  • * How Old is the Earth by G.Wachsmuth
  • The Writing of the Gospels by Adam Bittleston
  • Michael and St. George by Isabel Wyatt
  • Lament for the Makers by H.E. Brading
  • The Art of Eurythmy by Owen Barfield
  • What is the Meaning of the EEG? by Karl König, M.D.
  • The Siege of the Senses by Michael Wilson
  • Two Poems by Sylvia Eckersley
  • Rilke's Way by R. Lissau
  • The Wind in the Tree by E.L. Grant Wilson
  • Rudolf Steiner's Letters ( Volume 2) by Owen Barfield

Issue 1955
  • Evil and the Future of Man, A lecture given in Dornach, October 26, 1918, by Rudolf Steiner
  • Christopher Fry and the Riddle of Evil by Adam Bittleston
  • Cosmic Rhythms and Their Healing Power by Ernst Lehrs
  • Samuel Hahnemann by Karl König, M.D.
  • Early Memories of Rudolf Steiner by Ita Wegman
  • * Ita Wegman by M.J.Kruck v. Poturzyn
  • Martingale Brasses by H.E. Brading
  • The Art of the Caves and its Meaning by Richard Kroth
  • * The Time-Philosophy of Rudolf Steiner by Owen Barfield
  • The Bearers by Joy Mansfield
  • Book Reviews:
  • Percept Without Concept - The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley reviewed by Michael Wilson
  • Spiritual Healing, A Doctor Heals by Faith by Christopher Woodard reviewed by Kalmia Bittleston

Issue 1956
  • The Occult Basis of Music by Rudolf Steiner
  • A Musical Pilgrimage by Ferdinand Rauter
  • * Evolution: The Hidden Thread by John Waterman
  • The Ravenna Mosaics by A.W. Mann
  • Barbara Hepworth's Sculpture by David Lewis
  • Art and Science in the 20th Century by George Adams
  • The Two Faces of Modern Art by Richard Kroth
  • Reforming the Calendar by Walter Bühler
  • Dramatic Poetry and a Cosmic Setting by Roy Walker
  • The Weather in 1066 by Isabel Wyatt
  • An Irish Yew by E.L.G.W.
  • Christmas by the Sea by Joy Mansfield
  • Book Reviews by Alfred Heidenreich, Adam Bittleston
  • Poems by Sylvia Eckersley and Alida Carey Gulick and H.L. Hetherington

Issue 1957
  • The World Ash: Yggdrasil by Rudolf Steiner
  • Ancient European Clairvoyance by Rudolf Steiner
  • Mithras and Christianity by A.C. Harwood
  • Physical and Etheric Energies by E. Pfeiffer
  • * After Einstein's Death by E. Lehrs
  • Epochs of Evolution by John Waterman
  • * Dante's Exile by Paolo Gentilli
  • The Future of the English Language by Adam Bittleston
  • * Perceiving, Thinking and Knowing by Peter Carpenter
  • Good Friday by Joy Mansfield
  • Poems by Sylvia Eckersley and Arnold Freeman
  • Book Reviews by Owen Barfield and Fried Geuter

Issue 1958
  • Rudolf Steiner . . . Recollections by Some of his Pupils
  • Rudolf Steiner in England by George Adams
  • Religious Renewal by Emil Bock
  • Experience in the Realm of Dramatic Art by Gottfried Haass-Berkbow
  • Birth of the Waldorf School from the Threefold Social Movement by Herbert Hahn
  • Widening the Art of Healing by Grete Kirchner-Bockholt
  • The Rising Generation by Ernst Lehrs
  • One of the Young Doctors by Kurt Magerstädt
  • The Beginning of Eurythmy by Lory Maīer-Smits
  • New Directions in Agriculture by Ehrenfried E. Pfeiffer
  • Rudolf Steiner as Personal Teacher by Maria Röscht-Lehrs
  • At the Waldorf School by Karin Ruths-Hoffman
  • The Birth of Curative Education by Albrecht Strohschein
  • The Last Years by Guenther Wachsmuth
  • Rudolf Steiner in Holland by F.W. Zeylmans van Emmichoven

Issue 1959
  • Technology and Art by Rudolf Steiner
  • Recollections of Rudolf Steiner by Alfred Heidenreich, Violet Plincke and others
  • That Confounded Child by A.C. Harwood
  • Human Individuality by Adam Bittleston
  • * Darwinism and the Archetypes by John Waterman
  • Scientific Thinking by H.Heitler
  • Hidden Forces in Mechanics by George Adams
  • Tobias and the Consciousness Soul by Isabel Wyatt
  • * Speaking to the "Hollow Men" by Herbert Hillringhaus
  • Walter Johannes Stein by Herbert Hahn and Alfred Lewis
  • Review of Books by A.C. Harwood, Canon A.P. Shepherd, Arnold Freeman and the late Russell Davenport

Issue 1960
  • Supersensible Experiences by Rudolf Steiner
  • Earth Evolution in the Future by Rudolf Steiner
  • The Trinity in Man and Nature by Canon A.P. Shepherd
  • The East-West Deadlock by Ralph Courtney
  • Phoenix by Maurice Wood
  • What is History About? A.C. Harwood
  • Reflective and Creative Thinking by Michael Wilson
  • Human Movement by Olive Whicher
  • * The Hibernian Mysteries and "Zanoni" by John Muller
  • The Sickness of Johannes by Adam Bittleston
  • Mr. Koestler and the Astronomers by Owen Barfield

Issue 1961
  • The Centenary Year by A.C. Harwood
  • Anthroposophy among the Sciences by Rudolf Steiner
  • Anthroposophy and the Visual Arts by Rudolf Steiner
  • Anthroposophy and Religion by Alfred Heidenreich
  • America: Land of the Apocalypse by L. Francis Edmunds
  • Jack the Giant Killer by Isabel Wyatt
  • The Search for Felix by Emil Bock
  • In Memoriam: Emil Bock by Alfred Heidenreich
  • Equity Between Man and Man by Owen Barfield
  • Questions and Answers
  • Book Reviews

Issue 1962
  • Boundaries of Natural Science by Rudolf Steiner
  • Paths to the Spirit by Rudolf Steiner
  • Translating the Gospels by Adam Bittleston
  • Bacon and Modern Science by John Waterman
  • The Heritage of Man by Violet Plincke
  • Moving Through Human Life by Olive Whicher
  • Subud at First-Hand by Katharine Trevelyan
  • Studies of Threefold Man by C.D.
  • Feast of All Souls by Isabel Wyatt
  • Questions and Answers
  • Book Reviews

Issue 1963
  • Evil and the Powers of Thought by Rudolf Steiner
  • Seeds of Future Worlds by Rudolf Steiner
  • * The Council of 869 A.D. by A.P. Shepherd
  • Water's Forming Forces by Olive Whicher
  • Human Relationships in a Divided World by Adam Bittleston
  • Goddess into Saint and The Bird on the Harp by Isabel Wyatt
  • Thinking about Knowing by Alan Howard
  • The Work of Alice Bailey: 1880-1949 by Frances Banks
  • Book Reviews

Issue 1964
  • Faith, Love, Hope:1 by Rudolf Steiner
  • George Adams: His Life and Work by Olive Whicher
  • Science and the Threshold by John Waterman
  • *The Lord's Prayer by Adam Bittleston
  • Religion in the Round by Kenneth Bayes
  • Emerson and Rudolf Steiner by Virginia Moore
  • Knowing and Thinking by Alan Howartd
  • Book Reviews

Issue 1965
  • The Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge by Rudolf Steiner
  • The Foundation Stone and World History by A.C. Harwood
  • Rudolf Steiner and the Dead by Kalmia Bittleston
  • The Destiny of the Idea of Destiny by Friedrich Hiebel
  • Alchemilla and the Alchemists by F.H. Julius
  • Movement, Form and Feeling in Plastic Art by Emily Crockart
  • Weekdays and Worlds by Adam Bittleston
  • The Essence and Meaning of Numbers by Bernard Nesfield Cookson
  • Some Turning Points in Human History by Sigmund von Gleich
  • A Generation Ahead by R.G. Seddon
  • His Forest by Katharine Trevelyan
  • Poems by Sylvia Eckersley an Jay Mansfield
  • Book Reviews

Issue 1966
  • Autobiographical Sketch by Rudolf Steiner
  • The Personality of Rudolf Steiner and His Development by Edouard Schuré
  • The Spiritual Individualities of the Planets by Rudolf Steiner
  • The Stars at the Time of the Mysteries of Golgotha by Adam Bittleston
  • On "Mechanical Occultism" by Georg Unger
  • Potentization and the Peripheral Forces of Nature by George Adams
  • The Dynamics of Nutrition by Grange Kirkcaldy
  • * The Grail Stories and their Interpreters by John M. Wood
  • Communion, Community and Communism by A.G. Brice
  • Drugs and Consciousness by Daniel Bittleston
  • Anthroposophy and the Writer: A Symposium by Joy Mansfield
  • Poems by E.L.Grant Wilson and other

Issue 1967
  • Conscience and Astonishment by Rudolf Steiner
  • * Ephesus and the Castle of the Grail by Emil Bock
  • Poetry and Knowledge in an Age of Science by John Davy
  • * Words are Death and Resurrection by John Turner
  • Shakespeare's Troubled Knights by Adam Bittleston
  • Personal Memories of Dr. Karl König by Berta König, Tilla König and A.N.
  • Dolphins, Children of the Sea by Karl König
  • Incomes Policy and Personal Fulfillment by Gerald Rowe
  • * The Protestant by Gertrude M. Ward
  • Book Reviews: The Nature of Substance; Occult Science and Occult Development: Christ at the Time of the Mysteries of Golgotha and Christ in the Twentieth Century, two lectures given by Rudolf Steiner; Spiritual Knowledge: The Reality and the Shadow

Issue 1968
  • Nervous Conditions of Our Times by Rudolf Steiner
  • The Meaning of Initiation by A.C. Harwood
  • Science and Human Rights by John Davy
  • Where is Fancy Bred? by Owen Barfield
  • The Dove as a Sacred Bird by Karl König
  • The Dews of Memory by Isabel Wyatt
  • * St Paul by Arnold Freeman
  • Spiritual Science and Mysticism by Alan Howard
  • The Grand Illusion by Stanley Messenger
  • Traffic and Character by Adam Bittleston
  • Book Reviews: Nutrition; Animals in Splendor; Human and Cosmic Thought; Marie Steiner von Sivers

Issue 1969
  • The Great Virtues by Rudolf Steiner
  • The Threefold Sun by Elizabeth Vreede
  • From a Notebook of 1924 by Rudolf Steiner
  • Oracles by A.C. Harwood
  • An Interchange of Letters
  • The Woodward of Broceliande by Isabel Wyatt
  • Violet Plincke by Anne M. Gray
  • * What is "Living Water" by Theodor Schwenk
  • * Man, the Creation of Cosmic Powers by Ita Wegman
  • Thoughts on Heart Transplants by B.C.J,Lievegoed
  • Reincarnation in Clinical Practice by Arthur Guirdham
  • Book Reviews: Recent Publications of Rudolf Steiner's Works; Personal Letters; The Christian Year; A New Impulse in Art; Moon and Planet

Issue 1970
  • The Ear by Rudolf Steiner
  • * A Student with Rudolf Steiner by Heinz Müller
  • * The Disappearing Trick by Owen Barfield
  • Biography and Behaviour by John Davy
  • Mistletoe Therapy for Cancer by Dietrich Boie
  • Age and Destiny by Adam Bittleston
  • Beethoven's Two Worlds by Charles Waterman
  • The Situation of Universities in France by Colette Courtais
  • The Mentally Handicapped in our midst by Norman Davidson
  • Book Reviews: William Blake, Painter, Poet, Visionary; The William Blake Trust Facsimiles; Russia, Past, Present and Future; Stave Churches of Norway

Issue 1971
  • The Earth as Being with Life, Soul and Spirit by Rudolf Steiner
  • Wisdom and the Life of the Earth by John Davy
  • Can Farming Save European Civilization? by Rolf Gardiner
  • Animal Welfare in Britain by Peter Henry Reeve
  • East Africa in a Changing World by John Soper
  • Verse by Owen Barfield
  • The Australian Continent by Robert Williams
  • The New Exodus by Crosbie Wilson
  • Helmut Vetter by Hermann Schilitz
  • A Note on Albrecht Dürer by Catherine de Bryne
  • First Memory by Maurice Branch
  • The Rejoicing Eye by Doris Dancy
  • North America Under a Light Sky by Marjorie Spock
  • Nature Spirits by F.H. Julius
  • Transformation of Light by Walther Bühler

Issue 1972
  • Man's Journey Through the Spheres by Rudolf Steiner
  • Johannes Kepler by Joachm Schultz
  • Kepler, Boehme and the Copernican Revolution by John Meeks
  • The Earth's Soul and the Planets by Johannes Kepler
  • St. Sebastian by Paul Matthews
  • Twelve Moods by Rudolf Steiner
  • Wittgenstein in Prison by Charles Davy
  • A Dutch Social Initiative by A.S. Bos
  • The Student and the System by Martin Large
  • Three Journey's by Cynthia Nicholson
  • The Message by E.L. Grant Watson
  • Judgement and Blessing by Adam Bittleston

Issue 1973
  • The Recovery of the Living Source of Speech by Rudolf Steiner
  • The Forming of destiny in Sleeping and Waking by Rudolf Steiner
  • Language and Discovery by Owen Barfield
  • Some Uses of Language in Modern Poetry by Paul Matthews
  • Eurythmy and the Word by Cecil Harwood
  • The Eurythmy Figures
  • Inner Language and Outer Language by John Davy
  • * Aus "Wahrspruchworte" ("Words of Truth") by Rudolf Steiner
  • Sayings from Various Times by Rudolf Steiner
  • Equality and Justice by Charles Davy
  • Speech in the Family by Adam Bittleston

Issue 1974
  • Comets and the Moon by Rudolf Steiner
  • Letters on Comets by Elisabeth Vreede
  • Initiation: Old and Modern by A.W. Mann
  • The Organic Society: Threefold Ideas in English Life by A.C. Harwood
  • Economics and Consciousness by Adam Bittleston
  • * The White and Black Races by L.F.C. Mees
  • Curative Eurythmy by M. Kirchner-Bockholt
  • Search and Protest in Popular Songs by Joscelyn Godwin
  • Poems by Peter Gruffydd, Charles Austin and Allyn Moss

Issue 1975
  • The Twelve Senses and the Seven Life Processes by Rudolf Steiner
  • The Sense Organs and Aesthetic Experience by Rudolf Steiner
  • On Coming to Our Senses by John Davy
  • Evolution of Light, Darkness and Colour by Michael Wilson
  • Modern Theories of the Cosmos by Georg Unger
  • Nicholas Roerich by John Fletcher
  • Three Estranges Sisters by Charles Davy
  • * The Grail Castle in the Brain by Margarethe Kirchner- Bockholt
  • Where is Music Going? by Jocelyn Godwin

Issue 1976
  • * Editorial Notes: America 1976
  • Youth in an Age of Light by Rudolf Steiner
  • Soul, Spirit and Environment by Chris Day
  • Prayer and the Elemental Beings by Adam Bittleston
  • Michaelangelo: The Medici Tombs by Baruch Urieli
  • The African Way by Evelyn Capel
  • * C.S. Lewis: Science Fiction and Theology by Charles Davy
  • Poems by Charles Austin, Sylvia Eckersley, Carol Coates and others

Issue 1977
  • A Modern Turning Point by Rudolf Steiner
  • * Caspar Hauser and His Enemies by Peter Tradowsky
  • Archangels and Human History by J. Darrell
  • William the Silent by Eileen Hutchins
  • Studies in Successive Earth Lives by William Mann
  • St. Niklaus of Switzerland
  • Poems by Char;es Austin
  • Book Reviews: From Symptom to Reality- Rudolf Steiner's Work in the Arts - A Tribute to Owen Barfield

Issue 1978
  • Editorial Signs of the Times by Adam Bittleston
  • The Human Heart by Rudolf Steiner
  • Thoughts on the Future of England, Edited by Alastair Macdonald
  • English Landscape Painting by William Davie
  • The Garden of England by Stanley Drake
  • Meaning and the Human Soul by John Davy
  • * Origen: Teacher of Freedom by Andrew Welburn
  • Poems by Charles Austin and Peter Gruffydd
  • Book Reviews: Apocalypse - Life and Work of George Adams - "Awake my Glory" - In Search of Ufos

Issue 1979
  • Editorial: A Hundred Years of the Michael Age by Adam Bittleston
  • Michael and the Dragon by Rudolf Steiner
  • Cosmic Rhythms and the Course of History by John Meeks
  • * Why Reincarnation? by Owen Barfield
  • * A World Split Apart by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  • * Out of the Darkness by H.L.Hetherington
  • The Being of the Arts by Rudolf Steiner
  • Blake's Readings in the Akasha by Andrew J. Welburn
  • Charles Davy by A.B.
  • Henry Ford, Objective Idealist by Jonathan Westphal
  • Michael's Song by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
  • Democracy and Freedom by Brian Stockwell
  • Gold, Gems, Riddles and Spice by Isabel Wyatt
  • Reviews, Notes and Acknowledgements

Issue 1980
  • The Peoples of the Earth in Light of Anthroposophy by Rudolf Steiner
  • The Work of Michael, Past and Present by M.P. van Deventer
  • Must Man Remain Unknown? By Eugen Kolisko
  • * Man and the Underworld by John Davy
  • Art for Whose Sake? by Charles Davy
  • Two Sonnets by Mallarmé
  • Notes on the Two Sonnets by David Paul
  • Reflections on Painting by Mary Clare
  • The Role of Thinking in Overcoming Psychological Problems by Fraser N. Watts
  • From Twenty-One to Forty-Two by Adam Bittleston
  • The Child Who had No Father related by Fred Briggs
  • * The Australian Aborigines by Crosbie Wilson
  • Reviews, Notes and Acknowledgements

Issue 1981
  • Love by George Herbert
  • * The Grail Mystery
  • The Decline of Greece and the Mysteries of the Holy Grail by Rudolf Steiner
  • * The Fisher King by Chrétien de Troyes
  • A Note on Chretien de Troyes by Marie-Alice Cartwright
  • * In Quest of the Holy Grail by Ursula Grahl
  • * The Trials of Parsifal by Francis Edmunds
  • * The Temple of the Grail by John and Doris Meeks
  • * Grail Mountain and the Garden of Marvels by Hugh Hethington
  • Wolfram and Wagner by Jacob Streit
  • Counseling and Spiritual Development by Adam Bittleston
  • Twelve Sonnets
  • The Cosmic Man by Maurice Branch
  • * A World in Crisis
  • A Consultation About the Future by Charles Davy
  • The Crisis in World Economy by Daniel T. Jones
  • Autistic Children by Lotte Sahlman
  • Television's Prisoners by Faith M.W. Hall

Issue 1982
  • West-East Aphorisms by Rudolf Steiner
  • Anthroposophy in the Eighties by Reijo Wilenius
  • Question of Russia
  • The Work of Man for the Earth by Vladimir Soloviev
  • * About the Illustrations by John Fletcher
  • * The Making of Icons by Vladimir Lindenberg
  • The Russian Folk Soul by Margarita Woloschin
  • A Pre-Revolutionary Childhood by Vladimir Lindenberg
  • Black Earth and Nightingales by Aletha Bridge
  • Leningrad and Washington by Konrad Oberhuber
  • Two Questions on World Economy by Daniel T. Jones
  • The Influence of the East
  • World Contrasts Between East and West by Heimo Rau
  • Bhagvagita and Western Man by Carol Fraser
  • The Great Green Eraser by Judith Hurley
  • Lights of the West
  • The Devil as Companion: Goethe and Shelley by Andrew Welburn
  • Emerson Speaks by Francis Edmunds
  • Wittgenstein by Johnathan Westphal

Issue 1983
  • The Mystery of the Human Soul
  • Editorial Notes by Adam Bittleston
  • Memory and Love by Rudolf Steiner
  • The Global Task of Anthroposophy by Wolfgang Schaad
  • The Work of Liane Collot d"Herbois by John Fletcher
  • Birth of the Human Soul by Mary Crawford
  • Plant-Mother by Jacob Streit
  • The Way Chose You by Heiti Brice
  • Love and Fidelity by Eileen Hutchins
  • Shakespeare's Work as Mirror of the Human Soul by Dawn Langman
  • Dramatic Tragedy and Christian Belief by Charles Davy
  • Four Poems by Charles Austin
  • * The Devil as Companion by Andrew Welburn
  • Pneuma and Psyche by Stanley Drake
  • Philia, Astrid and Luna by Adam Bittleston

Issue 1984
  • Elemental Beings and Human Destinies by Rudolf Steiner
  • Work and Worklessness
  • The Meaning of Work by Marjo van Boeschoten
  • Work and Destiny by Peter Roth
  • A New Vocation: Eurythmy by Glenda Monasch
  • The Actor by Alan Poolman
  • What is a Research Worker? by Michael Wilson
  • A Dustman Speaks by Greg Richey
  • Tinker, Tailor, Banker, Teacher by William Forward
  • A Doctor's Approach by Jenny Josephson
  • The Satisfaction of Computer Programming by Gail Kahovic
  • I am a Plumber by Jon Humbertstone
  • A Cook's Delight by Wendy Cook
  • Counseling and Priesthood by Adam Bittleston
  • Japan and the West
  • Twenty-seven Kaiku translated by R.H. Blyth
  • Individuality and Community in Japan by Tomie Ando and Terry Boardman
  • Japan and the World Economy by Daniel T. Jones
  • Kotodama: The Speech Formation of Japan by Tadahiro Ohnuma
  • Notes of Japanese Painting by John Meeks
  • Messengers of the Light
  • Wellesley Tudor Pole by Charles Davy
  • Alan Cottrell's "Goethe's View of Evil" reviewed by Owen Barfield

Issue 1985
  • Evil and the Future of Man by Rudolf Steiner
  • The Resolve for the Earth by Friedrich Behrmann
  • Poems and a Prayer by Albert Steffen
  • The Encounter of Light and Darkness by Albert Steffen
  • (A Page of Memory; Inner Experiences of Light; Knowledge of the World: Precious Stones: The Baptistery in Florence; A Sketch)
  • Time Past and Time Future by Charles Davy
  • The Middle Realm of Man by Wolfgang Schad
  • Prison: A Dialogue by Yvonne Karsten and Tony Dunderfelt
  • Good and Evil Experienced Through the Waldorf Curriculum by Brien Masters
  • Reflections on the Return of Haley's Comet by John Meeks
  • J.S. Bach for New Voyagers by Cecil Cope
  • All I can Say about Common Sense by Greg Richey
  • Schumacher - by His Daughter by Charles Davy
  • Lifeways by Anke Cram

Issue 1986
  • The Rejoicing Eye Doris Davy
  • The Earth Seen by the Dead by Rudolf Steiner
  • * The Mystery of Mary - In Body. Soul and Spirit by Emil Bock
  • * The Blessed Virgin Compared to the Air we Breathe by Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • The Plight of Our Forests by Mark Riegner
  • Food, Famine, Misery and Hope by Daniel T. Jones
  • Ethiopia - Nightmare or Paradise by Tim Cahill-O'Brien
  • The British Countryside 1985-2050 by John Spence
  • The Daily Bread by Michael Spence
  • Karo Bergmann - Art as a Healing Force in our Times by Monika Hertrampf-Pickmann
  • "The Three Spheres of Society"- The History of a Pioneering Book by Charles Davy
  • Between the Poles by Charles Davy
  • Genesis by Josephine Spence

Issue 1987
  • Editorial Notes, Great Decisions Needed by Adam Bittleston
  • Changes in the Experiences of Breathing by Rudolf Steiner
  • * From Nature to Sub-Nature by Rudolf Steiner
  • Raphael and the Clouds by Adam Bittleston
  • An Eye for the Sky by Ralph Brocklebank
  • The Wearer of Shapes by Arthur G. Zajonc
  • From the Life of Helmut Sieber - Awakening Through the Elements by Doris and John Meeks
  • Painting the Weather by Helmut Siber
  • Working in a Silver Foundry by Helmut Siber
  • One Day After Chernobyl by X.Y.
  • * The Future of Civilisation by Nick Thomas
  • * Nuclear Energy - Not an Earthly Paradise by Georg Maler
  • The Energy Crisis - as a Challenge by Daniel T, Jones
  • Speech and Breathing by Dawn Langman
  • The Bird and the Poem by Robin Cook
  • The Woodwind in Music by Julian Pook
  • Birds in Flight by Mark Riegner

Issue 1988
  • Editorial Notes: World Economy and the Brundtland Commission by Adam Bittleston
  • Stars of 1988 by John Meeks and Michael Brinch
  • The Cosmic Verses by Rudolf Steiner
  • The Spiritual Individualities of the Planets by Rudolf Steiner
  • The Planetary Movements in Eurythmy by Glenda Monasch
  • Greek Cosmology: An Old and New Science of Life by Markus Wulfing
  • Planets and Trees
  • Seven Trees and Sevn Planets by Johannes Hemleben
  • Seven Planets - Seven woods: An Artist's Impressions by Gertraud Goodwin
  • To Nest Among the Trees by Mark Riegner
  • The Evolution of Trees: A Cosmological Approach by John Meeks
  • Form and Gesture in Tree Buds by Lawrence Edwards
  • The Tree Between Earth, Man and Cosmos by Iris Pfennig and Georg Wilhelm Schmidt
  • The Alchemical Tree and the Planetary Metals by John L.Lash
  • Artists in Speech and Color
  • Friedrich Rittlemeyer: As Forerunner of a Christianity of the Future by Adam Bittleston
  • Hermann Kirchner, Teacher and Artist by Sarah Wakefield
  • Book Reviews; The Weather paintings of Helmut Siber; Notes and Acknowledgements

Issue 1989
  • Editorial Notes -The Praise of Earth by Adam Bittleston
  • The Stars of 1989 by John Meeks and Michael Brinch
  • The Hymn of the Earth - from the Atharvaveda
  • What is the Earth in Reality within the Macrocosm? by Rudolf Steiner
  • David Newbatt - An Artist in Midstream by Carola Kindle
  • Three Great Ideals in our Time by Rudolf Steiner
  • The Light of the World by Owen Barfield
  • Technology and the Earth by Nick Thomas
  • Puppets Help in a Mixed-up World by Gisela Bittleston
  • Man and Nature in Different Cultures and Continents by Andreas Suchantke
  • The Many Faces of Water by Mark Riegner
  • The Powers of Sorrow by Georg Kühlewind
  • Book Reviews, Notes and Acknowledgements

Issue 1990
  • Adam Bittleston by William Forward
  • Editorial Notes by William Forward
  • Man, Offspring of the Stars by Rudolf Steiner
  • The Observation of the Stars as a Path to Freedom by John Meeks and Michael Brinch
  • The Life Between Death and Rebirth in the Light of Astrology by Elizabeth Vreede
  • The Bridge of the Green Snake by A. Bockemühl
  • Some Questions Concerning Rainer Maria Rilke by R. Lissau
  • The Tasks and Deeds in the Life of William Mann with Roswitha Spence
  • William Mann - The Teacher by Ted Roberts
  • Addiction as an Impulse Towards the Renewal of Culture by J. van der Haar
  • On the Destiny of the American Indian by Brian Gold
  • Book Reviews, Notes and Acknowledgements

Issue 1991
  • Editorial Notes by William Forward
  • Central Europe Between East and West by Rudolf Steiner
  • The Future of the Slavic Peoples of the East and the Spiritual Tasks of Central Europe by Sergei Prokofieff
  • The Heart and Lungs by Jenny Josephson
  • The Emergence of Europe by Charles Lawie
  • Why is it Important to Know the Soul and Spirit of a People? By Athys Floride
  • Central Europe beween East and West: Present Tasks by Manfred Schmidt-Brabant
  • In Memoriam: Adam Bittleston
  • Book Review, Notes and Acknowledgements

Issue 1992
  • Editorial Notes by W.F.
  • The Spiritual Contributions of the West by Virginia Sease
  • * Characteristics of America that point to the Future
  • Language and Nationhood by William Forward
  • Peculiarities of English in its Global Context
  • Are we Detached? by Andrew Wolpert
  • How the Language of the Consiousness Soul serves the Ego
  • An Interfering Interest by Peter Tradowsky
  • A Shadow cast over Europe by the Occult Forces of the West
  • Breathing and Circulation by Jenny Josephson
  • Physiology and the Foundation Stone Meditation
  • First Aid at the Turn of the Century by Jenny Josephson
  • Three Meditations from 1914
  • * Prometheus Unbound by Andrew Welburn
  • A Mystery Play for Our Time
  • Book Reviews, Notes and Acknowledgements

Issue 1993
  • Editorial Notes
  • Celebrating Columbus by Paul Law
  • Upheaval in Adolescence by William Forward
  • Centring the Teacher by Dorit Winter
  • Mystery Play in Now: An Interview with Christopher Marcus
  • Regenerative Grammar by Andrew Wolpert
  • Losing Ground by Ria Freiermuth
  • * Finding One's Place by Stephen Briault
  • The Flowering of the Human Soul in Florence by Charles Lawrence
  • Review, Letter, Notes About the Authors

Issue 1994
  • Editorial Notes
  • The Universe as Organism by Lawrence Edwards
  • Chaos Theory and Projective Geometry by Nick Thomas
  • Our Heart: Sounding, Serving, Unifying by Philip Kerr
  • Learning to Enhance Sense-perception by Olive Whicher
  • Flow Design Research by John Wilkes
  • Reviews, Notes about the authors

Issue 1995
  • Editorial Notes
  • * The Matter of Britain: Arthur, the Grail and Parzival by Richard Seddon
  • * The Polarity of Parzival and Gawain in Eschenbach's Parzival by Frank Teichmann
  • * The Emergence of the Grail Legend: Facts and Fiction by Hanah May Thomas
  • * The Temple of the Grail by John Meeks
  • Eschenbach and Michelangelo by Andrew Wolpert
  • "Miracle of Highest Grace: Redemption for Redeemer" by Alex Naylor
  • The Play of the Planets in Eschenbach's Parzival by William Forward
  • * The Quest for the Holy Grail in New York City in 1994 by Barbara Francis
  • Review, Notes on Contributors

Issue 1996
  • Editorial Notes
  • The Mystery of the Blood by James Dyson
  • The Bleeding Wound of King Amfortas by Karal Jan Tusenius
  • D.H. Lawrence's The Rainbow, the Lion and the Blood of Sophia by Andrew Welburn
  • Mithras, the Bull and the Transformation of the Blood by Chrisitopher CLouder
  • Of Blood and Money by Christopher Houghton Blood
  • Money- the Christ Blood of the Threefold Social Order by Jack Foster
  • Chosen Destiny by Rudi Lissau
  • Book Reviews by Jenny Josephson
  • Notes on Contributers

Issue 1997
  • Editorial Notes
  • * The Karmic Core of Anthroposophy by Virginia Sease
  • * Karma Research by Nick Thomas
  • Imitations in Images by Northart M. Rohlfs
  • Trauma Versus Karma by Hans Peter van Monen
  • Angels Amongst Us by Hartwig Schiller
  • * Karma and the Internet by Dorit Winter
  • Shakespeare and World Destiny by Richard Ramsbotham
  • Karma and the Mystery Dramas by John Gee
  • Notice on the Contributers

Issue 1998
  • Editorial Notes
  • A Fiftieth Birthday Salute by Owen Barfield
  • * Karmic Experience, Karmic Research and the Power of Empathy by Baruch Urieli
  • Anthoposophical Medical Work and Karma Consciousness by Maurice Orange
  • Biography Work by Margli Matthews
  • Research Techniques and Life Events by Jostein Saether
  • * Discerning Destiny by Harlan Gilbert
  • Reincarnation Therapy by Trui Derwig
  • * Karma and Altered States of Consciousness by Willem Veltman
  • The Uses of Adversity by Christopher Clouder
  • Touchstone Elizabeth Attwell
  • Book Review by Simon Blaxland-de Lange

Issue 1999
  • Editorial Notes
  • Being Born into a Brave New World by John Alexandra
  • The Biiodynamic Farm: An Embryo for the Threefold Social Order in our Time by Manfred Klett
  • * The Meeting of Karmic Streams in the Communications Age by Simon Blaxland-de Lange
  • Our Communion with the Dead by William Forward
  • Why on Earth Are We Here? by Andrew Wolpert
  • * The Karmic Community of Samuel Hartlib, John Davy and Johann Amos Comenius by Ken Gibson
  • Japan and My Destiny by Fumiko Chikami
  • Come Alive! by Sibylle Eichstaedt
  • Book Reviews: From Gondhisapur to Silicon Valley by Paul Emberson
  • * Leonardo da Vinci by David Alan Brown

Issue 2000
  • Editorial Notes
  • Glimmers of Truth by Dorit Winter
  • Archetypes in Biography Henning Kohler
  • A Reluctant Audiobiographer for Dore Deverell
  • Telling Encounters by Mathias Wais
  • Coleridge: A Lifetime Illumined by Coralee Schmandt
  • A Biographical Fragment by Nick Thomas
  • Childhood Illness: Spiritual Births by Bon Dudney
  • Verifying Karma Reserach by Enge, Smit and Schage
  • Book Reviews: Because of Yolande by Dorit Winter, Simon Blaxland-de Lange

Issue 2001
  • Editorial Notes
  • Clairvoyance and Thinking by Corinna Gleide
  • The Mysteries of the Pleroma by Rudolf Steiner
  • Bolshevism as an Initiation Principle of Evil by Sergei Prokofieff
  • * Computers and Intelligence by Harlan Gilbert
  • Death and Life in Modern Thinking by Jonael Schickler
  • Awakening to the History of the Anthroposophical Movement and the Society by Bodo von Plato
  • Renewing Seed and Human Culture by Bernard Jarman
  • Anthroposiphy and Psychiatry by Dr. James Dyson
  • Ready! Aye, Ready! by Alex Naylor
  • Book Reviews: The Enclounter with Evil ( S. Prokofieff) Reviewed by Nicholas Nunhofer; Awakening the Will and Practisinf Destiny (Coenraad van Houten) Reviewed by William Forward;
  • Letters to the Editors

Issue 2002
  • Editiorial Notes
  • The Human Being's Responsibility for the Evolution of the World by Rudlf Steiner
  • Rhythm, Turbulance and Stasis in Nature: The Spirit Matter Problem Revisited by Harlan Gilbert
  • Flow through the Heart by Philip Kilner
  • The Globalisation of Steiner's Impulse for a Social Renewal of Agriculture by Tadeu Calados
  • The Saturn Path by Nick Thomas
  • Star Children and Difficult Children by Georg Kühlewind
  • The Prospects for Social Threefolding Today by Niconar Perlas
  • * The Ramano Salamander and Esoteric America by David Adams
  • Claude Lorrain: Journey to Inner Light by Vivien Law

Issue 2003
  • Editorial Notes
  • Life and Death by Rudolf Steiner
  • * Meditiation by Karla Kiniger
  • * Self-Discipline: A Prerequisite for the Practice of Meditation by Baruch Urieli
  • * Prayer by Adam Bittleston
  • * Meditation and some of its Practical Results by Ron Jarman
  • * The Eightfold Path by Avisahy Gershony
  • Reflections of an Artist by John Salter
  • Sustaining Purpose and Progress by Steve Briault
  • Work is a Spiritual Path by Shirley Routedge
  • Meditative Practice in Counseling by Tessa Lovemore
  • The Inner Work of the Biodynamic Farmer Today by Richard Smith

Issue 2004
  • Editorial Notes
  • Brotherhood and the Struggle for Existance by Rudolf Steiner
  • Three Laws by Micahel Luxford
  • Clash of Civilzations, Iron Necessity, 530 Billion Imaginary Workers; Current Events through the Lens of Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual-Scientific Discoveries by Stephen Usher
  • The Iraq War and the Threefold Nature of Human Society by Michael Spence
  • * The Karma of Money by Cornelius Pietzner
  • Ethical Finacialism: A Fast Track to Chnaging the Way the World is Financed by Christopher Houghton Budd
  • The Human Being between Globalisation and Genetic Engineering by Nicanor Perlas
  • Threefolding of Global Governance by Christoph Strawe
  • "Com-Panis", Economics and the Company by Lawrence Keen

Issue 2005
  • Editorial Notes
  • Goethe and the Evolution of Consciousness by Rudolf Steiner
  • Crisis of Cognition as a Language Crisis by Martina Maria San
  • Awareness of the Time as a Perception of Reality by Christopher Haid
  • * Owen Barfiled: Harbinger of the 21st Century by Simon Blaxland-de Lange
  • 'O, for a Muse of Fire': The Imaginative Language of YB Yeats by Sean Byrne
  • Emily Dickinson and the Living Word by Coralee Schmandt
  • Language and the Priestly Task by Roger Druitt
  • An Improvisation on the Theme of Educational Intuition by Martyn Rawson
  • * Icons by Martin Schmandt
  • Poems and Poetics by Paul Matthews
  • Thinking around the Mother Tongue by Emilie Salvesen

Issue 2006
  • Editorial Notes
  • Problems of Time: Lecture 1 by Rudolf Steiner
  • Problems of Time: Lecture 2 by Rudolf Steiner
  • Special Spiritual Foundations for the Connection between England and the United States of America by Virginia Sease
  • Shadows of Doubt by Terry Goodfellow
  • True Columbia by Christopher Houghton Budd
  • The Future of the English Language by Adam Bittleston
  • Distinguish withour Dividing by Terence Davies
  • The Isles by Norman Davies, Reviewed by Simon Blaxland-de Lange
  • Poems for the Path by Sean Byrne, Reviewed by Margaret Jones
  • Notes on the Contributors

Issue 2007
  • Editorial Notes
  • Historical Characters and Their Place in Evolution by Rudolf Steiner
  • * Parzival's Teachers by Andrew Wolpert
  • Making Sense of Steiner: Working with Study of Man in a University Environment by John Burnett
  • Flame Song of Sumer Sun: Five Fragments for St; John's Tide by John Salter
  • Counterspace Reserach by Nick Thomas
  • Anhroposophia and Economics by Christopher Houghton Budd
  • * Gilgamesh, Homer and Robinson Crusoe: Changing Consciousness in World Literature by Andrew Welburn
  • Cactus Flower by Martin Schmandt
  • The Fishes Zodiac and the Present Age by John Salter
  • Moving within the Picture by Maggie Salter

Issue 2008
  • Editorial Notes
  • The Widening of Man's Perception by Rudolf Steiner
  • The Living Earth as a Spiritual Being: Our Responsibility by Margaret Colquhoun
  • Understanding Multiple Sclerosis through Painting and Shaded Drawing by Gerhard Roeber, Leonora Hambrecht and Andreas Zucker
  • Carbon and Climate Change: Why the World needs Biodynmic Farming by Bernard Jarman
  • Colour Research and the Re-enlivenment of Creative Thinking by Angela Patten
  • The Study of Colour by Walter Johannes Stein and Marie Steiner
  • On Sculpture Research by Gertraud Goodwin
  • * Sexuality, Sin, Enjoyment or Enlightenment by Bart Maris

Issue 2009
  • Editioral Notes by Simon Blaxland-de Lange
  • The Polarity between Eternity and Evolution in Human Life by Rudolf Steiner
  • Time and Humbolt's Gift by Andrew Welburn
  • About Time Too: Beethoven and the Scherzo: A Symptom of the Consciousness Soul by Brien Masters
  • What is Time? by Howard Smith
  • * Lead us not into Temptation... by Andrew Wolpert
  • Physics and Time by Nick Thomas
  • Time and Music by Gregers Brinch
  • In the Grip of Time by John B.Thompson
  • Space, Time and Consciousness: Money as Mirror of Human Experience by Arthur Edwards
  • * TS Eliot and Owen Barfield: Contrast or Convergence by Terence Davies

Source: The Waldorf Library

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